Startup Professionals Musings

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7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur's Startup Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. There is a common belief in the angel and venture capital community that you put your money on the best team, rather than the best idea.

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8 Innovation Inhibitors Challenge Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Witness the struggle of the Segway human transporter, introduced back in 2001.Technology Low startup founder resilience and persistence. Every startup needs a team with the right skills and experience to complement those of the founder. New technology solutions often raise the specter of new government regulations.

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Web 3.0 Brings a New Wave of Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

This notion of a Web where machines can better read, understand, and process all the data floating through cyberspace first surfaced in 2001, when a story appeared in Scientific American. Tags: startup opportunity entrepreneur founder web 3.0 The Semantic Web isn't really even a new idea. is getting louder and louder. Marty Zwilling.

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David S. Rose – Father of Angel Investing in New York

Startup Professionals Musings

The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking. Its indefatigable founder, however, has since raised an additional $25 million from other angels, never made a penny of profit, and the value of my original six-figure investment is now about zero.

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